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A review of The History of Silent Hill

  Earlier this year, Pen & Sword Books released The History of the Pokémon Games, which I reviewed here. At the same time, they released the much less obviously marketable The History of Silent Hill by Samantha Morris. Similar titles notwithstanding, these...

“The Brickade” – Fully Functioning Lego Arcade Machine

Holy Moly. That is all I have to say on this one of a kind Lego build.  I literally spent a half hour talking with the creators and being mesmerized by the look and feel of the arcade machine. I went to the Brick World convention in Schaumburg, IL this past weekend...

A Study of: Miracle Warriors – by Brian Lesyk

If you were yearning for a solid role-playing game in the late 80s and resided in North America and happened to own a Sega Master System console, you were certainly in the right place at the right time. As luck would have it, you were unknowingly on the cusp of being...
Made In Japan: Elevator Action

Made In Japan: Elevator Action

Elevator Action was one of my favorite games as a kid. I used to remember going to a diner with my folks and playing the game after we ate. I loved being a secret agent trying to go around to find documents in a building swarming with bad guys. While there have been a...

Hidden Gems: Vice: Project Doom

Hidden Gems: Vice: Project Doom

What do you get when you combine the over head perspective of the amazing Spy Hunter, the stellar side scrolling game play of Ninja Gaiden and the killer First Person Sniper game play found in games like T2: The Arcade Game? You get the kick ass Hidden Gem, Vice:...

Made in Japan: Bangai-O

Made in Japan: Bangai-O

Most everyone in the classic gaming community knows of the Japanese game developer Treasure and their impeccable track record for making some of the best action games to ever grace a video game console (and even a candy cab or two). So this being an article on...

Hidden Gems: Total Recall

Hidden Gems: Total Recall

According to the June 1990 issue of Videogames & Computer Entertainment, Acclaim took an unexpected turn in the development of the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Total Recall. It commissioned Interplay to transform the expected summer blockbuster into...

Aliens Vs Predator Games

Aliens Vs Predator Games

Very few film and comic franchises have yielded positive results when translated into the video game medium. Pick any random five video games based on either a film or comic and the odds of just one of those games being remotely decent are pretty slim. As gamers we‘ve...

Intellevision

Intellevision

As a kid in the late 1970s, before I had a video game system of my very own (Santa didn‘t come through until 1982, when he brought a ColecoVision to our house), I would make any excuse I could think of to visit friends who owned an Atari 2600, an Odyssey2,or even a...

Splatterhouse

Splatterhouse

Imagine if you will: you and your girlfriend, both parapsychology majors from a local university, decide to take a trip to an abandoned mansion that had the reputation of housing evil experiments run by the mad scientist known as Dr. West. On the way, you‘re hit by a...

Panzer Paladin: A Review

Panzer Paladin: A Review

As much as I love video games, and really I LOVE video games, there are many other things in this world of ours that I enjoy as well.  One of those things is anime, and one of my favorite series is Mobile Suit Gundam.  Giant robots fighting each other and stuff...

Video Games Invade Pro Wrestling

Video Games Invade Pro Wrestling

With perspiration splattering and hands blistering, the children of the ̳80s and ̳90s ascended to the heights of spectacular televised main events - by wearing out A buttons and dislodging the directional pad in marathon sessions of Nintendo‘s Pro Wrestling. They did...

The Legend of Zelda Game Maker

The Legend of Zelda Game Maker

It all began when we were first introduced to Link, a small elven boy charged with the task of finding the scattered pieces of the Triforce of Courage and saving Princess Zelda from the evil clutches of Ganon. I am talking, of course, about Nintendo‘s The Legend of...

This Day In Video Game History

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